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Tag: Read Write Poem

Posted on 4 April 200923 April 2009

NaPoWriMo 09 – day 4

Some days, all you can do is just close your ears, think of the money and hope for the best. (As the actress said to the bishop.) Anyhow, today's attempt was courtesy of the ReadWritePoem prompt #3: 'three in a row': Write about how “three in a row” means you’ve won something, like a game …

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Posted on 3 April 200923 April 2009

NaPoWriMo 09 – day 3

   Equinox   The curtain makes a snapshot of the wind, its shape held and frozen, draped in muslin. Beyond the door, rosehips store the flourish sunset red that oak leaves soon will scatter on the autumn wind again.      This was based (very very loosely) on the ReadWritePoem NaPoWriMo prompt #1. My five …

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Posted on 2 April 200923 April 2009

NaPoWriMo 09 – day 2

The cold, darkening Coming in to roost the flocks of starlings dip and sweep trailing filaments of dusk and then settle in to the weft of trees anchoring night with their feet.     Well once again I've not used the ReadWritePoem prompt, although I'm letting it settle in my mind for tomorrow's effort. This …

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Posted on 1 April 200923 April 2009

NaPoWriMo 09 – day 1

Running She is running away from them, businessmen on the Avenue queued at the traffic lights, thinking of home. Leaves underfoot, great drifts as though she were running through the soft husks of summer. In dreams it feels like this – effortless. Easy. Stride and breath flowing like sunlight through half-bare trees.  At the end of …

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